emurselovic
March 31st, 2014, 11:42 PM
Hi there,
Sorry if the title doesn't make perfect sense, I'll try to elaborate and clarify:
I would like to buy a second internal hard drive for my desktop, and install Ubuntu (and possibly other distros in the future) on that hard drive, but I want to do so without affecting the regular boot-up for the PC. That is to say, I would like the PC to automatically boot into Windows without ever running into a bootloader or even being able to access that secondary drive at all through windows. I want to basically only be able to boot up Ubuntu by entering the boot menu manually on a restart/boot and choosing to boot from the secondary drive.
So an example would be:
C:\ 1TB Internal w/ Windows 7, boots automatically when PC is turned on, and is unable to access files on D:\
D:\ 1TB Internal w/ Ubuntu and/or other linux distros, boots only when one enters advanced boot settings when turning on a computer and manually choosing to boot from that drive.
Thank you very much in advance for any help anyone can offer with this.
Sorry if the title doesn't make perfect sense, I'll try to elaborate and clarify:
I would like to buy a second internal hard drive for my desktop, and install Ubuntu (and possibly other distros in the future) on that hard drive, but I want to do so without affecting the regular boot-up for the PC. That is to say, I would like the PC to automatically boot into Windows without ever running into a bootloader or even being able to access that secondary drive at all through windows. I want to basically only be able to boot up Ubuntu by entering the boot menu manually on a restart/boot and choosing to boot from the secondary drive.
So an example would be:
C:\ 1TB Internal w/ Windows 7, boots automatically when PC is turned on, and is unable to access files on D:\
D:\ 1TB Internal w/ Ubuntu and/or other linux distros, boots only when one enters advanced boot settings when turning on a computer and manually choosing to boot from that drive.
Thank you very much in advance for any help anyone can offer with this.